Hodge took the carriage back to the village, and to be honest, the snowy hamlet he had lived in for eight years was quite remote, and the carriage and horse shops of ordinary towns would not open a route for a remote village, but when he came to the carriage and horse shop, he was told that someone had paid a large price to open a special line for the village, and he did not have to pay any money.

Carol, Hodge whispered the name in his mind.

This is really an inscrutable aristocratic lady, she can use certain means to achieve her ends, but other than that, her zeal for dealing with people is not fake, after the giant earthworm has been slain, her value to her is almost zero, she could have walked away, and even hired mercenaries to keep her secret to keep her mouth shut, all of which were within his expectations, but Carol gave him a token and paid for his return journey.

Is it good or bad? I can't see through it.

Hodge sat in the carriage, playing with the parchment scroll in his hand by the light from the window, which Fink had given him before leaving, and which was the key to his willingness to join Carroll's group.

Letters of recommendation from pastors.

Stroking the friction of the parchment, he sighed in his heart that the precious treasures that were difficult to obtain by many wealthy merchants and magnates were quietly placed in the palm of his hand at this moment.

Where it is as simple as a roll of parchment, this scroll is precious in that it gives a person status, and in a world where class status is above all else, the title of priest means no longer having to live in fear.

He had lived in the village for eight years at ease, and he was very happy, but he did not belong here after all, and sooner or later he had to leave, and he left the remote place to go to the city, and the identity of a commoner was simply inchable, and he could be executed by the aristocracy in the name of fun casually.

It's not good, it's bad.

He wants to live, and he wants to live well.

So a suitable position is what he desperately needs at the moment.

And this scroll is equivalent to the status he wants.

According to Fink's statement before leaving, the Priesthood has a summons every four years, and those with a letter of recommendation from the priest can go to the Priesthood to study, and the last Priest's City summons were issued a year and a half ago, which means that Hodge has two and a half years to prepare.

He remembered his last conversation with Fink, and the suspicious look on Fink's face before leaving, and shook his head with a smile.

That's true, in just eight years, he has read nearly 1,500 books, and this achievement is not something that sacrifices sleep time to stay up and read hard in exchange, in fact, even if you read it without sleep, you can't reach this reading volume in eight years.

The real key to this is a skill that Hodge has mastered.

Quick read.

The creation of this skill was purely accidental, and Hodge used linguistics to read books in the first two years, and after reaching a certain amount of reading, he automatically derived an advanced skill, that is, speed reading.

The effect of this skill is that when you open an unread book, you can perform a dice judgment, and the success of the judgment will instantly obtain the entire content of the book, without reading for a long time, and directly recorded in the brain, without worrying about forgetting.

Of course, there are limitations, for example, after the judgment fails, as long as the book with the same content, even if it is two different printed editions, it cannot be judged again.

The initial skill point of speed reading is 20, and the probability of one in five is not very high, but it also helps the reading speed quite obviously, and later as Hodge grew from an apprentice to a junior herbalist in the field of herbalism, and then became an intermediate herbalist, he got an additional 15 free ability points, for Hodge there is little contact with the outside world at this stage, and there is no need to improve psychology and linguistics, so he added a brain to speed reading, so that the reading speed improved again.

Now he has 20 more free skill points, and there is a new skill branch.

How to allocate these 20 skill points is the first problem that Hodge needs to consider.

No, the 35% success rate was enough for him, and two and a half years later was the time to enter the Priesthood, which meant that he had to start making contact with the outside world, and he didn't want to die easily before he became a real priest, and he had to have a few strengths that were enough to live with.

Anthropology and the occult, in terms of human contact, it is clear that anthropology is the ability he needs more at the moment, but it is a two-choice skill, and choosing anthropology means that he can no longer use the occult.

He now has some information about the world, and the additional news brought by the dirt worm indicates that something unforeseen has begun to creep closer to this world, and the lack of occult abilities will make his future investigation process even more difficult, if the world is about to be destroyed, what is the use of being a master of human relations?

After thinking about it for a long time, he finally came up with his own plan.

Choosing the Occult, assigning 15 skill points, plus the base 20, now his Occult reaches 35.

The remaining 5 points were assigned to psychology, and although in some respects it was more obvious that it did not catch up with the information obtained by anthropology, this skill also helped him a lot in communicating with the outside world.

After the assignment, he closed his eyes, there was still some way to go, and it was a good time to take a nap.

......

"My lord, we have reached our destination. ”

The coachman opened the door and woke up the sleeping Hodge, who blocked the light from outside the car with his hand, blinked, got used to it, slowly got out of the carriage, thanked the coachman, and walked into the village alone.

In retrospect, this expedition also took nearly two weeks, and I don't know what the situation in the village was during this time, could it be that there were seriously injured hunters who needed to be treated by themselves?

After walking for a short time, he saw a familiar village, several familiar women were drying dried meat, and when he turned around, Hodge smiled and nodded, but he didn't know if it was a delusion, he always felt that these aunts had a teasing emotion in their eyes called "So you are such Hodge".

It's weird.

"Little Hodge. A woman dumping sewage in the distance saw him and beckoned to him.

He walked over to the woman: "Aunt Maffei." ”

Ma Fei put down the wooden basin and wiped his hands on his apron carelessly: "I haven't seen you for a long time, you don't know how troublesome it is after you leave, my son had a fever a few days ago and didn't know who to look for." ”

"Hetoth, how is he now?" Hodge asked with concern.

Ma Fei waved his hand: "It's out of the way, it's already feverish, fortunately I found the antipyretic medicine you prescribed to them before at Tomman's house, although it's been a long time, but it still works." ”

Hodge breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great. ”

"Speaking of which, little Hodge. Ma Fei squeezed a look at him, "It's been so long, and you haven't even told us that you still have relatives in the city." ”

"Relatives?" Hodge was stunned, "What relatives?"

"Don't pretend, we all know that. Ma Fei obviously thought he was playing dumb, "Just a few days ago, your aunt came to see you in the village, and she has been living in your hut for the past few days, not to mention that the people in the city are different, we have never seen such beautiful people in this small place." ”

"Little ...... Auntie?"